| Description |
xii, 848 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Introductory note by Byron Dobell." |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard F. Snow -- I wish I'd been there -- How to write history / Dixon Wector -- "And the mound builders vanished from the earth" / Robert Silverberg -- Hunt for the regicides / Alexander Winston -- "Then and there the child independence was born" / Richard B. Morris -- "In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" / Kenneth S. Davis -- Our two greatest presidents / Clinton Rossiter -- Garden of Eden and the deacon's meadow / Perry MIller -- Battle of Lake Erie / Richard F. Snow -- Peace of Christmas eve / Fred L. Engelman -- Primer from a green world / Walter Havighurst -- Children of darkness / Stephen B. Oates -- Jackson's fight with the 'monster' / Bray Hammond -- Johnny Appleseed / Edward Hoagland -- Minister and the mill girl / George Howe -- Hawthornes in paradise / Malcolm Cowley -- Tammany pioneers / Richard Reinhardt -- Farther continent of James Clyman / Richard Rhodes -- Prairie schooner / George R. Stewart -- Barbarian at the Shogun's court / Emily Hahn -- Family divided / Janet Stevenson -- Hayfoot, strawfoot! / Bruce Catton -- First modern man of war / B.H. Liddell Hart -- |
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Unexpected Mrs. Stowe / David McCullough -- Fear of the city / Alfred Kazin -- Great Vanderbilt will battle / Frank Kintrea -- Historian as celebrity / John Lukacs -- Machine that kept them honest / Gerald Carson -- Carnegie & Rockefeller / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Should the historian make moral judgments? / Henry Steele Commager -- Henry Adams in the South Seas / Louis Auchincloss -- "You'll have to see Morgan" / Andy Logan -- Father of Oz / Daniel P. Mannix -- Winds of ruin / C.W. Gusewelle -- Old Fall River Line / Oliver Jensen -- "You press the button, we do the rest" / Bernard A. Weisberger -- Woods were tossing with jewels / Marie St. John -- "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" / Barbara W. Tuchman -- American game / Bruce Catton -- Big Bill Taft / Stephen Hess -- Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle -- World's tallest building / Spencer Klaw -- Still quiet on the Western front / Gene Smith -- Were Sacco and Vanzetti innocent? / Francis Russell -- Quiet earth, big sky / Wallace Stegner -- Conundrum of corn / Joseph Kastner -- Henry Ford's village / Walter Karp -- Why the money stopped / John Kenneth Galbraith -- |
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"I am the law" / Thomas J. Fleming -- St. Lô / Charles Cawthon -- Man who could speak Japanese / William Manchester -- When I landed, the war was over / Hughes Rudd -- Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in history / Allan Nevins -- Revising the twentieth century / John Lukacs -- Nation of immigrants / Bernard A. Weisberger -- How have we changed? 1954-1994. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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| Added Title |
Best writing from the pages of American heritage |
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American heritage.
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| ISBN |
0831713682 |
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